It has been just under two years since I began writing for Mets360.com, and it has been an incredibly educational and pleasurable time spent with you all. As I need to take some time away for a while, I am left wondering if I can leave something for you. Clearly my signing of Yoenis Cespedes [...]
Ok, so things did not exactly go as planned for the Nationals under my reign as General Manager. My idea was to trade Jayson Werth, Danny Espinosa, and my entire bullpen and sign key free agents. My only problem: nobody wanted anyone I had offered. I did make a few trades, and was able to [...]
Read on to see how we did forecasting Duda's performance
We heard the name of the tall, right-handed pitcher who came over from the Toronto Blue Jays in the R.A. Dickey trade. Anticipation within the Mets fan base mounted when hearing about Noah Syndergaard’s fastball and stuff; meanwhile most of us never saw the guy throw a pitch. As we followed his impressive 2013 campaign [...]
If you're willing to make predictions, you've got to be willing to go back and see how they turned out.
Jason Heyward is going to get paid this off-season, and he's going to get paid a lot. Part of that has to do with how Major League Baseball free agency works, what with insane contracts that get crazier and crazier each year. Most of it, though, is because of just how great a player he's [...]
Let’s pretend that you are a baseball fan but for some reason (new baby, ridiculous job demands, or being on a space mission to Mars) you were not able to follow this season or post-season. Now you are ready to be caught up and have been told that the recently played World Series featured two [...]
Following their 2014 World Series win, the San Francisco Giants missed the playoffs in 2015 with an 84-78 record and second place finish in the NL West. While many of the core pieces were still in place from their three recent World Series rings, some tinkering would need to be done as several players were [...]
The Mets were looking to make a move in the 2014 offseason that would improve the roster and make the Mets contenders for the Wild Card (that’s right… before the seasons we were hoping to be contenders). Michael Cuddyer was the man Alderson picked and, because none of us are perfect, I thought it was [...]
Last year the Brewers began a rebuilding phase. They traded away players on big contracts during the year, including Aramis Ramirez, Carlos Gomez, Gerardo Parra and Jonathan Broxton. The end result is that their end of year payroll was much lower than their Opening Day payroll. For this project, 2016 payrolls were based on 2015 [...]
The Mets officially signed Terry Collins for another two years. Collins has been with the ball club since the beginning of the 2011 season, and has had a 402-422 record. There have been many ups and downs with the team, and he has seemed to be on the hot seat for at least one month [...]
Last offseason, Washington Nationals were my team and it was a ton of fun. Plus, it helped my self-esteem to know that the changes I made might have won the division (considering the moves Mike Rizzo made did not win an NL East title). This time the Atlanta Braves were the team to simulate and [...]